Tag: Falklands tourism

• Monday, September 30th 2024 - 09:26 UTC

  UN Secretary General, Tourism and Peace bring people together

  

  On September 27 World Tourism Day, Anotnio Guterres United Nations Secretary General released the following message, “Tourism brings people together. ”On this World Tourism Day, we reflect on the profound connection between tourism and peace”.

• Thursday, December 14th 2023 - 17:49 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government announces support scheme for tourist sector

  

  Following the approval at ExCo on Tuesday 12 December, the Falkland Islands Government will now be able to provide details on a support scheme designed specifically to mitigate the effects of site closures associated with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu, on tourism businesses, operators and employees until 31 March 2024.

• Friday, November 26th 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Falkland Islands' Tourism awarded the Safe Travels from WTTC

  

  As the tourism industry rebuilds following the COVID-19 pandemic, very high standards of health and hygiene are expected to be adopted by all tourism businesses around the world.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Falklands preparing for tourism ‘new normal’ in 2020

  

  The Falkland Islands are concerned about tourism and what can be expected of the coming season. Tourism is one of the main industries of the Islands and has been growing sustainedly despite attempts by an abusive neighbor to curtail its development, but on this occasion, the world pandemic has become a greater uncertainty and challenge.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Falklands' next tourist season “very tough, very late, if there is one at all”

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Mark Pollard this week said that the coming tourist season is likely to be, “very tough, and a very late one if there is one at all.” However MLA Pollard emphasized that he was expressing his own opinion, and described any expectation that the cruise ship season will start as normal in October as fanciful.

• Friday, July 12th 2019 - 02:37 UTC

  Falklands tourism industry broke several records

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) has released its annual tourism statistics for 2018, which shows the tourism industry broke several records all in one year.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Falkland Islands Seven (and main) Wonders for Visitors: the spectacular wildlife

  

  Perhaps fittingly the King Penguin was chosen as number one in the Falkland Islands Tourist Board’s (FITB) 7 Wonders of the Falklands survey. Over the last three months FITB has asked past and present visitors to the Islands, as well as residents, what they would consider to be their seven wonders.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Falkland Islands has enjoyed one of its best tourist and visitors season

  

  The Falkland Islands has had its best season for land-based tourism for 10 years, and the second best ever, with leisure tourist arrivals increasing by 14.9% compared to the previous season.

• Friday, September 27th 2013 - 08:20 UTC

  Falklands’ tourism stats: UK and Argentina provide the most arrivals

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board has released statistics from last season and Managing Director Tony Mason explained that the seasonality of tourism in the Falkland Islands is quite significant, with 65.5% (nearly two-thirds) of all arrivals visiting in the first and last three months of the year (Jan-Mar and Oct- Dec) in 2012.